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GOOD MORNING #ScienceTwitter - hold on to your butts, b/c it's the best day of the year: #NationalSeaJellyDay! I did a thread for NSJD last year but that was before I understood how to construct threads so let's do it properly this year (1/24)
Starting off, let's take a look at how cool this alternation of generations in the typical scyphozoan jelly life cycle is: (2/24) 
But why scyphozoan jellyfish - what does that even mean? There are lots of critters in the Phylum Cnidaria, separated into Classes.
Anthozoa: our anemones and corals! Like this aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima), anthozoans look like upside-down jellies (3/24)
Anthozoa: our anemones and corals! Like this aggregating anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima), anthozoans look like upside-down jellies (3/24)
